Roxanne Tickle was awarded $10,000 after the federal court upheld her discrimination complaint against female-only app Giggle for Girls, which had blocked her.
Trans woman Roxanne Tickle has won her discrimination case against women-only social media app Giggle for Girls, which had barred her from the service, in a decision billed as a landmark test of trans rights law in Australia.
The Federal Court found that Tickle had not been directly discriminated against but had been the victim of indirect discrimination and ordered the app to pay her $10,000. Roxanne Tickle argued Giggle for Girls illegally discriminated on the grounds of gender identity after her access to the app was revoked.Justice Robert Bromwich read out a summary of his decision on Friday and noted that Giggle’s founder Sall Grover removed Tickle when she saw her photo and “considered her to be male”. Giggle had argued that the discrimination was permitted because, in its view, Tickle was of the male sex and that was unchangeable.
But, Bromwich ruled: “These arguments failed because the view propounded by the respondents conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts over 30 years”.In a social media post after the decision, Grover said she had expected the decision but “the fight for women’s rights continues”.is the deputy federal editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House in Canberra. He is a former technology editor and industrial relations reporter.
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